Posted on 08/31/2007 12:43:54 AM PDT by neverdem
Carbon trading, the increasingly accepted answer to global warming, will cost far more than we’re being told.
In a short time, global warming has graduated from niche cause to accepted fact. Though skeptics may still grumble (or shout) that the science isn’t settled, they’ve lost the battle when President Bush agrees to “seriously consider” an international climate-change treaty; when media mogul Rupert Murdoch writes that “climate change poses clear, catastrophic threats”; when conservative standard-bearer National Review runs a cover article saying that “it’s no longer possible, scientifically or politically, to deny that human activities have very likely increased global temperatures”; when Ford CEO Alan Mulally tells the Detroit News that “temperature has increased . . . mainly because of the greenhouse gases keeping the heat in”; and when New York Times everyman columnist Tom Friedman exhorts us to “go green.” Al Gore—who, less than a decade ago, dropped his nearly career-spanning obsession with climate change, recognizing that no serious politician could make it the cornerstone of a presidential campaign—now has an Oscar for the global-warming documentary An Inconvenient Truth. Some 84 percent of Americans think that human beings are contributing to global warming, with 78 percent (and 60 percent of Republicans) saying that we should do something about it “right away,” according to an April New York Times/CBS News poll.
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They shouldn’t call them carbon offsets. A more accurate name would be carbon indulgences.
It has the added benefit for them, that when this whole mountain comes toppling down, pollution offset contracts will come down with them. This is something environmentalists may very well be hoping for.
Never have so many fallen for such outright deceit.
What is it about this topic that makes normally sensible people lose all ability to think?!
Bush has been the biggest disappointment. I wonder if the conservative radio hosts challenged him on his global warming comments?
Carbon indulgences.
Exactly correct. And who needs them most: the rich and famous advocates of global warming.
And to whom SHOULD these payments go? Well, actually, there is not one single person or group on the face of the earth that deserves to get paid because others are using fuel to warm their homes, drive their cars, and conduct their business.
However, I’ve decided that they can send all their guilty conscience money to ME. :>)
MSM doing a great job with the sheeple...78%...WOW thats really effective.
Follow the money. Right into Algore’s pocket.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
It turns out that the only way to reduce atmospheric CO2 is for the climate to have been colder 800 years ago! Changes in global temperature precede changes in atmospheric CO2 - and they precede them by about eight hundred years.
This extraordinary lag time is due to the source of the CO2: it outgasses from the oceans, which are an enormous heat-sink
The Vostok ice cores hold a record of CO2 vs atmospheric temperature data going back 420,000 yrs. The temp vs CO2 data behaviour from Vostok is shown below. The average lag is on the order of eight hundred years. So you are quite right - there's not much we can do about atmospheric CO2 - and we shouldn't be worried by it anyway
Hope this is helpful, Sir
hey i get warm in the daytime when the sun comes out...
so don’t tell me the globe don’t get warm ......
and as the day goes by why it gets EVEN warmer....yes, that’s RIGHT...
so don’t tell me there’s no such thing as A WARM globe and as a matter of fack i think we’s a warmin up right along...
man, i live it every single day....
thank god algore made me realize i was getting warm becuuse of out of control warming, globe-wise....
course i do live in florida....so...
(all you people who deny the algorical, are gonna get a nasty exxon letter from olympia and rocky to)
i reserve the balance of my time.....
hey i get warm in the daytime when the sun comes out...
so don’t tell me the globe don’t get warm ......
and as the day goes by why it gets EVEN warmer....yes, that’s RIGHT...
so don’t tell me there’s no such thing as A WARM globe and as a matter of fack i think we’s a warmin up right along...
man, i live it every single day....
thank god algore made me realize i was getting warm becuuse of out of control warming, globe-wise....
course i do live in florida....so...
(all you people who deny the algorical, are gonna get a nasty exxon letter from olympia and rocky to)
i reserve the balance of my time.....
This is leading to carbon taxes.
I’m waiting for beachfront property values to drop......then I’ll sorta, maybe, think the planet is getting warmer. I could move up to West Virginia and make out for a few years.
If they really believe this junk science they would offset the carbon consumption within their own company or would take the money they are wasting buying offsets and use it for some real conservation effort.
Yup -- see tagline.
Full title: An Inconvenient Solution to an Imaginary Problem
Exactly. I expect to see this in my phone bill in the near future.
Have you ever read point #5 in my profile? Your point about CO2 outgassing is completely wrong. That is not how the system works.
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